The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS,

ID in the Yankton asylum muddle ar
The work allowed to 60 n. W
The controller of the currency has
approved the Watertown National
bank OF Dakota as a reserve agent.
Boston Journal: The marriage of
Mr.. Winthrop E. Scarritt OF Water
Town, and Miss Lerria Tarbell,
daughter of Supt.. Tarbell, OF the Prov
idence 'public schools, was solemnized
in Providence. Mr., and Mrs. Scarritt
will reside in Watertown.>
Dakota: Pensions granted: Widow
Of T. S. Free, Sioux Falls. original:
W. Cook, Westport; l.. c. Sulier, Will
low Lake. Montana: E. G. Bruce,
Butte City; A. Battles, Billings. :
At Grand Forks, George Gruikshank's
child was killed by the failing Of
threshlng engines stack: 49,.
At a special election held at DEVILS
Lake it was voted to incorporate as
a city under general laws.
Gov. and Mrs. Church spent some
time at Big Stone City on their way
TO Fargo and Mitchell.
At Bismarck, Lauren Dunlap, ex
commissioner OF immigration, was
granted a divorce from his wife on the
ground of cruelty and desertion. MI.
Dunlap is row on the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. Mrs. Lunlap is supposed to
be in Huron.
Secretary Muldrow has approved
the cancellation of Charles Good
snough's entry OF the southeast quar-
ter of section s, township Ill, range
SO, Huron land district. Hehas mod.
flied thu decision Of the commissioner
so as to allow o. Thomas, whose en-
try of the southwest quarter OF sec
tion 80, township 1913, range 65, Wa
tertown district, held for cancellation,
to file supplementary proofs. The
secretary has reinstated H.. K. Olesen's
entry of the southeast quarter of Sec
lion II, township 1913, range IT,
Aberdeen district.
The largest outfit OF railroad grad
ers that aver entered Dakota Terri
tory in one body arrived at Sioux
Falls recently from Hastings, Neb., by
special train. They began work on,
the Illinois Central depot grounds. I,
W. H. Maees OF Brookings died at
Aberdeen from hemorrhage OF the
bowels at the residence of J.. G.. Clell-
and. The deceased was a prominent
citizen Of Brookings. He was largely
interested in blooded stock, and. was
proprietor Of the Brookings roll
or mills.
Hot Springs (Dak.) Special: Mrs.
Emma ]. Reid, a "cattle queen" from
New York, we'll known in Omaha, got
on what the cowboys call a "high
aboutthe LIST Of September,
and caused the arrest OF a y Dung col
ored man whom she charged with an.
assault with deadly weapon with ia-
tent to commit the crime of rape..f
After a prolonged examination OF five
days and two nights the defendant
DISCHARGED. The latter at once
an action against the al
legged cattle queen for the sun of $780,
600 damages for defamation of char
and false Imprisonment.
Oscar G. VOORHEES,, after many de,
lays, was taken before Judge Wilkin
at st. Paul, and sentenced to impris>
onment at Saltwater for q term OF
years and ten months. VOORHEES,
came to St. Paul in February last,
and representing himself as r. C.
VOORHEES,. a property owner OF Huron,
.nortgaged,' certain lands belong.
ing to r. G. VOORHEES, to Graves e
receiving therefor 81, ZOO. r.
G. VOORHEES, is a brother of Oscar.
The fraud was not detected until ear
ly in April, and the criminal was ar
rested at Huron, where he was prarti.
The second year of the Jamestown
opened with fatterine pros.
poets. Fifty students are in attend
ance and one hundred will be at the
opening OF the next winter term. A
new brick building, three additional
instructors, and five times the num-
Der of students are advantages pos
sessed oyer last year.
The North Dakota elevator at
V7'heatland, owned by the North Da-
kota Elevator company, was burned.
The building held $4,000 bushels
and was full of wheat.
The South Dakota Fair at Mitchell
was we'll attended and very successful
in every respect.
Della Houck, an innocent-looking
girl fifteen years of age, left Jersey
City to join friends at Ludden.
While on the Grand Trunk train be-
tween Windsor and Chicago she met
John Shannon, the train news dealer,
who "was very friendly" and who
completely won over the unsophisti.
by his boldness.s Onarrivine
she was assaulted and robbed sof-all
her money.
A wonderful flow OF water was
struck in the artesian we'll at Frank.
tort at a depth OF 900 feet. A four
and a half inch stream is beingthrown
fifteen feet in the air and it looks like
a geyser. Messrs. Swan & Co., con.
tractors, say it is the largest flow
they have seen in the territory. The
water is soft and sweet. ~.
A syndicate with 500, 900 capital
has been organized in Sioux Falls to
boom Cakes as the new cross-road
railway town in Dickey county.
The following delegates were elected
tn the National Stool R.ondnrns ~